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Occasionally, I find that an MP kind of bothers me. For some of you, someone like Myron Thompson could really bother you; Olivia Chow could bother others.

My question is:

Which MP do you find the most irritating?

   

I'll get the ball rolling.

Joe Comartin, the NDP Member from Windor - Tecumpseh.

This guy is a typical windbag, and can blather on about nothing for hours at a time.

   

Provincial NDP candidate Julie Gladman, and Federal NDP candidate Jack Layton

Julie Gladman told my sister she could not be taught, then my sister went to a different school and got 90s in english (gladman teaches english) So she got owned. Julie Gladman does not care for anyone but herself, and I seriously hope she loses this by-election. Fucking rediculous.

Jack is a dumbass.

   

You should have put in the qualifier, that it had to be you're own MP or those lefty dippers out east will jump on the Emerson bandwaggon. Nothing like a band of robots parroting a party line.

I don't want to but I've got to say I was not impressed with Cadman in his last term. I understand and am sympathetic reguarding his cancer but he was in the last 5 for attendance and did a huge 180 in his last vote. RIP & my regrets but the facts don't lie.

   

If they find Emerson the most irritating, that's fine.

I find him a bit grating, personally.

   

Olivia Chow and her neo-commie viewpoints

   

Stephen Harper. A lying, secretive hypocrite if there ever was one.

   

Handsome Jack and his Chow - one a former porn star - both fraud artists. . . .

   

Chow was going to be my third....all NDP...hmmmmmm

   

Secretive? In what way Rev?

Don't tell me you long for the Martin days, when he'd hold 6 news scrums a day, each lasting 3 minutes and none of them saying anything of substance except platitudes about "priorities" and "moving forward". Or perhaps it's Chretien you miss, when he'd come out of cabinet, mumble a bunch of barely coherent sentences that nobody could understand, then wander off to talk with his imaginary homeless friend in the park.

I think Harper had it about right when he stated he "will hold a press conference when I have something to announce." It may piss off Julie Van Dusen and cause her to go banging on the PM's door while he's talking to a child cancer patient, but nobody outside the CBC gives a shit.

As for the lying hypocrite crap, get over it. I didn't agree with the Emerson appointment, but that's hardly the scandal of the century. If the worst thing you and the other Tory critics can say about Harper's ethics is that he did something the Libs wrote the book on, then this country's going to be painted blue for a very long time.

   

Harper secretive? Nahhhhh, he just doesn't like talking to the media. Can't say I blame him.

   

Conservative MPs aren't allowed to write a letter to the editor without him okaying it. He gagged them during the last election and instead of loosening the gag when he won, he duct taped it into place. He banned reporters from outside his cabinet room doors, where they've been for 30 years. He's afraid of the press, he's afraid of the public, and he's afraid of his own MPs.

   

Who cares if they can't write a letter to the ed? It's called party discipline, and it's important for a party that has as many media enemies as the CPC does.

And why is it such an affront to democracy if the Press Gallery isn't allowed to gather outside the Cabinet Room anymore? Prior to 1978, they weren't allowed to, and I don't think the Canadian Fifth Estate was considered an oppressed institution then.

This is much ado about nothing. Nobody in the country gives a shit except the media. You left-wing guys are just seizing on this non-story because you can't find anything of substance to criticize Harper on. And it irks you that he's climbing steadily in the polls as the weeks go by.

   

I find Jack Layton and Bill Graham to be the most annoying.They are wanting to block the mandatory minimum sentencing legislation the Conservatives want to pass.The tories were elected based on these promises and these neo-commies find the minimum sentencing too harsh.That is a bunch of Crap!

   

Nonsense, MB. I don't know where you learned about democracy, but in most of the world freedom of the press, including the freedom to ask questions of the government, is considered a basic tenet of democracy. The Canadian tradition of press scrums was considered by most people to be a huge step forward for democracy. Taking this away is a huge step backward because it limits scrums drastically.

Worse than that though, Harper said that he was going to be open and accountable...that transparency was important. It was the only part of his platform that didn't suck like a shop vac. Except it turns out that it was a lie. Instead of bringing us transparency, he's exceptionally secretive. What's he hiding?

   

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